Threshing-machine.



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THRESHING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED .MAR. 25, 1908.

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THRESHING MAGHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1903.

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THRESHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1908.

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THRESHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1908.

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THEE SHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

Original application filed April 26, 1908, Serial No. 318,682. Divided and this application filed March 25, 1908.

Serial No. 423,253.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. HAYNES, a citizen of the IInited States, and a resident of Bay City, inithe county of Matagorda and State Texas, have invented a new and Im royed Threshing-Machine, of which the 01 owing is a full, clear, and exact descrip- This invention is an improvement in harvesters, the subject matter of which was divided from my co-pending application filed April 25, 1906, Serial Number 313,582.

The invention .has in view a rigid frame -arranged .at one side of the harvester and I" iii showing a locking 'evice for the adjusting adjustable to diflerent elevations above the ground, the frame carrying the harvesting mechanism and braced intermediate its length b the frame of a downwardly and outward y-inclined elevator.

0 Reference isto be had to the accompany- 1ng drawings formin a part of this specification, in which simi ar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan of the harvester in connectlon with my improved threshing machine; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same partly in section; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the machine on an enlarged scale;

Fig.- 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the adjusting means for the elevator between the harvesting and threshing mechanisms; 5 is a cross section through the machine; 6 is 'a fra entary sectional view mechanism of the elevator between the harvesting and threshing mechanisms.

10 indicates a wheel-supported platform having the usual hitching devices at the front and on which at a convenient point is mounted a. motor 11., referably in the nature of an internal com ustion engine, which drives a cross-shaft 12 mounted 1n bearings at the forward portion of the platform, and on which a threshing cylinder 13 is fixed,

contained in a breast or concave having a feed hopper 14. Secured to the floor of the platform is a pair of triangular brackets 15, to the vertical faces of which are riveted or otherwise secured standards 16, said standards being flanged at their inner edges, as indicated at 17, and having the opposite edges bent over to form guideways for.

guide-bars 18 of the main apron frame. The guide-bars 18 are flanged on their opposite edges to give a good bearin surface between them and the flanges They also have a series of alining equally-spaced holes 19 running their entire length, which act in the capacity of rack-bars for engaging pinwheels 20 which are fixed to a shaft 21 journaled on the standards 16, and adapted to be operated by a crank 22 attached at one side. At the upper end of each standard 16,

as best shown in Fig. 6, a spring-pressed pin 23, o erated by a handle 24, passes through a ho e in the standard and one of the holes -of the adjacent guide-bar 18, when the holes intermediate their end of the trough are journaled rolls 27 and 28, respectively, over which passes an apron 29 preferably made of a canvas strip with attached wooden strips at intervals of its length to form an elevator to raise the unthreshed grain into the hopper 14. One of the journaled bearings of the roll 27 is'extended to one: side, to which a sprocket wheel 30 is fixed, driven by a chain 31 passing around a sprocket 32 on, a shaft 33, as best shown inJFig. 1, then horizontally to and around a sprocket 34 on a shaftv 35, then over an idly-mounted sprocket 36 on a shaft 37, then down to and around a sprocket 38 on a shaft 39, then back to the sprocket 30, this construction obviously permitting a raising and lowering of the entire frame,

Without varying the tension on this chain.

The shaft 39 is journaled in the upper ends of the triangular brackets, 15 and has fixed to its opposite side from the sprocket 38, a pulley 4O driven by a belt 41 passing around a pulley 42 secured to the forward end of a shaft 43; this last mentioned shaft, as best -shown in Fig. '5, is arranged longitudinally of the platform underneath its flooring.

The shaft 35 is journaled in bearings in the right-angle of the apron frame, and -has fixed to its opposite side from the sprocket 34, a gear 44, as best shown in Fig. 2, in mesh with a gear 45 journaled at one side thereof, the latter driving through the intermediary of a link 46, a sickle-bar 47 which is slidable on a finger-bar 48 fastened v at the outside of the adjacent angle-bar 25.

attached a sprocket 52. The sprocket 52 of the, elevator,

tached triangular iir l iere their lower edges are each attached ()9 carried by end of the finger-bar. 20

"sion. A t ird guidin flto the rear edge of t passing over a roller 65 at the top drives a shaft 53 by a chain 54 passing about a sprocket 55, the said shaft 53 being journaled brackets' fixed to the under side of,the, trough-frame 26, andcarrying a im'ter gear 56 at its front end, meshin with a similar car 57 fixed to a shaft 58 w ich isjournaled 1n bearings respectively arrangedat one side and at its outer end in' a standard 59 projecting upwardly from the Fixed to the shaft 58 just over the sickle-bar is a reel made u of radial arms 60 and attached longitu nal stri s 61 at their outer ends which cooperate wit the sickle and finger bars in the usual manner, as in machines of this character.

To the upper end of the elevator are atguiding sheets 62, extendat opposite sides into the hopper 14 -arm'63 having a downward ten- -strip 64 is attached 1e hopper, and after of the elevator, is (provided with a weig t 66 at its lower en for keeping it under tension. This manner of connectm the elevator with the hopper, at all times eeps the guidingsheets stretched out when the height of the elevator is adjusted by the operation of the crank 22. The action of this crank, when the handles 24 of the sprin -pressed pins 23 are withdrawn, is to cause t e reel, apron, elevator and all attached parts to move in a, vertical direction. After this adjustment has been carried out to bring the cutter formed by the sickle and finger-bars to the required eight, the cutting and delivering mechanisms are again locked in position by the spring-pressed ins 23.

Directly under t e cross-shaft 12 is fixed tothe shaft 43 a pulley 67, which is connected by a be t 68 passing over a pulley the shaft 12. Also fixed to the shaft 43 at, its rear end is a disk 70 which drives a sickle-bar 71 through the interto a'sprin mediar' of a connecting link 72. The sicklebar 71 1s slidable on a finger-bar 73 whi'ch" is rigidly secured at a suitable elevation near the rear end of the machine.

In the operation of the machine, wheeled platform is drawn over the ground as the the motor is set in operation, causm the sickle-bars, reel, apron and elevator to set the grain and force it against the forward cutter where it is severed and thence thrown .on the apron, which latter transports it to .theelev'ator whereit is carried above and discharged into the feed ho per of the threshing mechanism. Direct y after the ain has been removed the rear cutter severs' the stubble a slight distance above the ground.

- Having thus. described my invention, I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a harvesting machine, the combination'of a Wheeled support, an elevator having a frame, a conveyer discharging on the elevator, means for cutting'the grain and discharging it on the conveyer, and a rigid ,frame on which the elevator, conveyer and the cutting means are carried, vertically slidable at one side of the support and braced intermediate its length by the elevator frame.

2. Ina harvesting machine, the combination of a wheeled support, standards rigidly secured at one side of the su port, idebars adjustable on the standar s, ang e-bars rigid with the lower ends of the guide-bars extending outwardly therefrom, inclined angle-bars connecting the u per ends of the standards" with an intermegl ate portion of the first mentioned angle-bars, an inclined in motion; the reel operating, to gather in a ron d ischdrging In testimony w ereof I have signed my I name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' Witnesses:

JOHN M. Conan'r'r,

ORIEN A. Gnovnn.

THOMAS S. HAYNES. 

